Ron Adam wrote:
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 19:08 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
I'm out of ideas here. But of all these, str.find is probably still the worst -- I've flagged bugs caused by it too many times to count. Could a with-statement be used here somehow?
with finding(x, s) as i: ...
Or an iterator.
for i in finding(x, s): ...
How would the case of not found be handled in either of these proposals? with finding(x, s) as i: ... if not i: # same problem as str.find, unless i is not a simple int for i in finding(x, s): ... else: # unless for loop has a break, this will happen... # not a problem until you want more than just the first # occurrence of s in x ~Ethan~